Applications and services that access Web data are becoming increasingly more useful and wide-spread. Current main-stream Web query languages such as XQuery, XSLT, or SPARQL, howe...
We present the InfoBeacons system, in which a peer-to-peer network of beacons cooperates to route queries to the best information sources. The routing in our system uses techniques...
Given a set of objects and a query q, a point p is
called the reverse k nearest neighbor (RkNN) of q if q is one of
the k closest objects of p. In this paper, we introduce the c...
Muhammad Aamir Cheema, Xuemin Lin, Wenjie Zhang, Y...
Expressing complex OLAP queries using group-by, aggregation, and joins can be extremely difficult. As a result of this, many alternate ways of expressing such queries have been de...
Given a record set D and a query score function F, a top-k query returns k records from D, whose values of function F on their attributes are the highest. In this paper, we investi...